Huey Newton Quotes

Agreeing to share prosperity, rather than let it divide us, is infinitely preferable to the alternative.

You see, without hard work and responsibility, there is no American Dream. Hard work lays the foundation. Our solidarity makes work pay - for all of us. For the greater good. That's what our vision of shared prosperity is all about.

No longer need capitalist and worker, farmer and clerk, city and countryside, struggle to divide our bounty. By working shoulder to shoulder, together we can increase the bounty of all.

When a group of people get together, it's collective power. You know that you're doing it for the good.

My guiding principle is that prosperity can be shared. We can create wealth together. The global economy is not a zero-sum game.

We all do better when we all do better.

In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers yet as one hand in all things essential to mutual progress..

Our Union cannot safely stand on the cold calculation of interest alone.

No universal selfishness can bring social good to all. Communism - the effort to give all men what they need and to ask of each the best they can contribute - this is the only way of human life.

I think most people agree with the idea of shared sacrifice, but for many, when push comes to shove, that principle goes out the window.

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.

There is but one mode by which man can possess in perpetuity all the happiness which his nature is capable of enjoying, - that is by the union and co-operation of all for the benefit of each.

It’s time we framed every question - every issue -- not in terms of what’s in it for ‘me,’ but what’s in it for all of us?

One man alone can't defeat the forces of evil, but many good people coming together can.

I think education has a bigger impact on the lives of people than absolutely anything else.

The object of government is the welfare of the people. The material progress and prosperity of a nation are desirable chiefly so far as they lead to the moral and material welfare of all good citizens.

I think that what started out as a European Union originally was probably a really wonderful and world-changing idea, the idea of a kind of cooperation and interdependence between countries. But the idea that individualization would work on common ground, not on conflict, not against each other, but to find how each benefitted from the other I thought was an incredibly hopeful and positive possibility.

People are fed up with the various camps, they want to unite.

Stronger together is, I think, a preposition and a comparative adjective, but it's not really an action verb or what it is.

Any individual can contribute its own belief. And our society or even our government are made by the people. The people would have the final voice, but it requires each individual to act. If we don't act, then the result is very clear. So for too long Americans take liberty as granted. We think we are in the safe hand, the democracy and the liberty, which is not true. And it can be even getting much worse than today.

I believe in optimism of the will, pessimism of the intellect. But my hope is the people, the society, which is ahead of the government.

I think that's what a partnership is - you take the positives from both people and incorporate them.

If my goal is to change Colombia, which it is because I really think Columbia has to change in many, many ways - I think it has to be a very profound, nearly spiritual maturing process in the Colombian society because I think you have to first be aware of what's happening and it's not easy because many people don't want to see what's happening.

... it is the spirit of trade unionism that is most important, the service of fellowship, the feeling that the hurt of one is the concern of all and that the work of the individual benefits all.